It's not like we haven't seen plenty of PMPs already that sport a
modicum of gaming controls and enough pep to manage a NES or SNES emulator, but the new
Gemei X-900 sure goes the extra mile. The 4.3-inch screened device is really quite svelte, at a mere 0.6-inches thick, but you can bulk up with some dedicated controls to spice things up, which include dual analog sticks along with the usual compliment of buttons. Otherwise, it's pretty standard fare -- though the PMP does manage a small built-in camera. The screen sports a 480 x 272 resolution, there's 1GB of built-in flash memory along with an SD expansion slot, and the codec support includes FLAC, MP3, WMA for audio, along with AVI and MPEG-4 for video. Battery life isn't too shabby, at 25 hours for audio and 6 hours for video, and the usual FM tuner and voice recording are present as well. Unfortunately, CNET sez those gaming controls aren't quite as great as they look, but we suppose they really couldn't hurt. No word on price or availability, but we're probably not going to see this thing around these parts anytime soon.
[Thanks, Gooly]
posted October 16th 2006 10:55AM
may I know the X900 firmware, I'm having problem with the gadget, it always hang, memory still big, but still hang, bought it, 1 month ago from singapore...thanks
I thought this was a photoshop markup when I first took a look at it. Then!..KABLAM! Turns out its real.
It would be nice if that PMP was "dockable" with the controller. I think that would be pretty nice, especially if there were some good games for this PMP.
It actually is. Read the cnet link for the review: it shows how the controller part and the screen separate. An alleged downside is that it's speakers are in the 'controller' half, so you'd need to be rocking the joysticks in order to hear the sound.
Am I the only one who loves these things except for their storage capacity? Maybe I'm just a little calous to memory amounts these days- but could we get anything over a gig on this thing? If it was even somewhere in the 2-4gig range, it might be cool.
I just get the feeling if I got one, someone would come up to me with their 2 year old treo they got off of ebay that does all the same stuff and more. I also have a DS that doesn't get a whole lot of use... would it be just as good (and cheap..er?) to do the whole homebrew and movieplayer thing? I hate buying gadgets just to find out later that they aren't as awesome as I originally thought they were going to be.
it kinda does look like it is docked on a controller dock. and they should at least match color.
more like "ugly-centric" . . .
Maybe you should rtfa. It is dock able and it would seem the picture shown here is a bad one at best. I think being able to remove the controller is great and doesn't require a man purse like a PSP would. Go read the article and you'll see what I mean.
This is all I ever wanted from my psp, but because of sony and there "updates" i cant play my precious SNES and genisis roms
Just got mine today, will try is out and write a small review later.
Yes it is "dockable" with the controller.
1 GB built in, up to 4GB via SD slot.
There is also a 2GB version, so max 6 GB baby.
A pic of the x900 detached here:
http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n317/2buyornot2buy/tradera/mp4/gemei/DSC_9474.jpg
more pics here:
http://mallis1.blogsome.com/2006/11/02/gemei-x-900/
Oldboy, can you please post the site link to buy this PMP ? Thank you.